Don’t Worry, Be Happy
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions” – Dalai Lama
As an adult you might look at all the clean laundry on this bed and sigh, thinking that it all needed to be folded or hung up and put away.
But my two grandsons didn’t see a pile of work to do, they saw fun. The smiles on their faces make my heart burst with joy. Can you remember being this age and thinking that everything in and around your house was just waiting for you to figure out a way to have fun with it?
As an adult you need to get back that lens of seeing things as something ready made to make you happy.
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do, are in harmony” – Mahatma Gandhi
One of the things that I love about watching small children, is their ability to just be themselves. They aren’t hiding who they are behind a mask, no fake smiles, no hidden agendas. If something does happen that makes them sad or mad, their emotions flow straight through them. The don’t pout in the corner waiting for someone to coax them back into a good mood. They have their moments when a tantrum hits them, then they immediately get distracted and two minutes later they are on the bed rolling in clean clothes and laughing about nothing.
They don’t have baggage that they carry around with them, that slows down their emotions. They don’t find themselves trapped in an endless loop of replaying a bad experience over and over again. They don’t let their emotions send them into an endless spiral of judgment and negativity. They don’t spend their days getting triggered by something unimportant. They don’t let a single thing cause them to spend the rest of the day in a bad mood.
“The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world” – Jaggi Vasadev
Have you ever been in a terrific mood, driving down the freeway as you go to work? Then someone cuts you off. You might mutter under your breath. Or maybe you yell at the driver shaking you head or hands. Or maybe you drive right up on their bumper to let them know how angry you are.
A few weeks ago, two drivers were going down the freeway, and I don’t know what started the argument, but they were taking turns cutting each other off, then they pulled their cars over and one man got out with a baseball bat. Fortunately, there was a highway patrol behind them, and he was able to stop it from escalating even further.
Why do people let someone else’s actions destroy their own good mood? Why do they feel the need to somehow get back at them for their either unthinking or aggressive driving habits?
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy” – Unknown
It isn’t easy to let things go as fast as they happen to you. But if you remember these two rascals and a load of clothes just out of the dryer, maybe, just maybe, you can be like a child. Feel the emotion, and let it flow out of you. Take back your self respect and don’t allow anyone to push you down the rabbit hole of negative emotions. Just walk away. Dance down the sidewalk. Laugh.
Just because someone invites you to argue and fight,
doesn’t mean you have to accept the invitation.
Self-Awareness allows you the space to check in within you and choose happiness. To choose not to worry. To choose the “easy button” in all aspects of living your life in joy and happiness.
When you choose to live your life from the place of gratitude it helps you to shift your energy, to bring in more of what you want in your life. As you walk down your chosen path, the journey of life brings you many things. Not all of them are meant to stay. Everything in your life currently is serving some sort of purpose. Part of the journey is figuring out why it is in your life.
What it is supposed to be teaching you, and once you know and implement that knowledge, then it is time to let it go. What an interesting thing it is to recognize that in every moment you have choices laid before you. You can choose anger and frustration, or you can let the negative emotion roll in a wave over you and past you to the shore. Watch as it draws all of the negativity back out to sea.
“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same” – Carol Castenada
Sometimes happiness is a feeling. Sometimes it’s a decision. Don’t let stupid things break your happiness. If you really look at life, while you will have tragedy happen in your life, most of your unhappiness from day to day is your being triggered by something stupid.
What are your dreams, visions, your life purpose?- Are you on track to bring them into reality and complete them?
- Have you allowed distractions to sidetrack you?
- Are you unclear on what your life purpose is or how to bring it into reality?
Remember, we here at LemonadeMakers are here for you. Contact us and let us help you choose a million reasons to be happy.
